Nurse Anesthetists Career, Salary and Skills
Nurse Anesthetists have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $236,590 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 51,840. Wage data is published for 175 locations.
Occupation description
Administer anesthesia, monitor patient's vital signs, and oversee patient recovery from anesthesia. May assist anesthesiologists, surgeons, other physicians, or dentists. Must be registered nurses who have specialized graduate education.
O*NET code
29-1151.00
Job zone
5
Typical education
Doctoral Degree
Experience
Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$236,590
Hourly median
$113.75
Employment
51,840
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | 4.12 | 4.00 |
| Reading Comprehension | 4.12 | 4.25 |
| Monitoring | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Speaking | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Active Listening | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 4.00 | 4.25 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Active Learning | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Science | 3.88 | 3.88 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.88 | 3.88 |
Typical tasks
- Respond to emergency situations by providing airway management, administering emergency fluids or drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques.
- Monitor patients' responses, including skin color, pupil dilation, pulse, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, ventilation, or urine output, using invasive and noninvasive techniques.
- Select, order, or administer anesthetics, adjuvant drugs, accessory drugs, fluids or blood products as necessary.
- Select, prepare, or use equipment, monitors, supplies, or drugs for the administration of anesthetics.
- Assess patients' medical histories to predict anesthesia response.
- Perform or manage regional anesthetic techniques, such as local, spinal, epidural, caudal, nerve blocks and intravenous blocks.
- Develop anesthesia care plans.
- Manage patients' airway or pulmonary status, using techniques such as endotracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, pharmacological support, respiratory therapy, and extubation.
Technology
- AetherPalm InfusiCalc
- Allscripts Professional EHR
- Amkai AmkaiCharts
- Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR
- Cerner Millennium
- ChartWare EMR
- Drug database software
- e-MDs software
- eClinicalWorks EHR software
- EDImis Anesthesia Manager
- Epic Systems
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
- MEDITECH software
- Medscribbler Enterprise
Nurse Anesthetists salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Nurse Anesthetists Salary in FLMedian $210,570 · Employment 4,600
- Nurse Anesthetists Salary in TXMedian $244,990 · Employment 4,060
- Nurse Anesthetists Salary in NCMedian $224,610 · Employment 3,340
- Nurse Anesthetists Salary in PAMedian $221,530 · Employment 2,500
- Nurse Anesthetists Salary in NYMedian $321,030 · Employment 2,450
- Nurse Anesthetists Salary in New York, NYMedian $321,030 · Employment 2,310
- Nurse Anesthetists Salary in MIMedian $247,010 · Employment 2,300
- Nurse Anesthetists Salary in OHMedian $231,810 · Employment 2,300
- Nurse Anesthetists Salary in CAMedian $292,410 · Employment 2,230
- Nurse Anesthetists Salary in MNMedian $266,190 · Employment 2,130
- Nurse Anesthetists Salary in ALMedian $190,300 · Employment 1,810
- Nurse Anesthetists Salary in TNMedian $211,450 · Employment 1,690
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.